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Josh Cheema

Education

MSc Candidate, Machine Learning & Data Science (TBD)

Imperial College London

London, UK

Jun-23 - Oct-21

MEng, Engineering Science (2:1)

Oxford University, St Hugh’s College

Oxford, UK

Jun-14 - Oct-09

A-Level: Further Mathematics (A)

Rochester Independent College

Kent, UK

Jun-09

A-Level: Mathematics, Physics, History, English Literature (AAAA)

Gravesend Grammar School

Kent, UK

Jun-08

Experience

Executive Director, Derivative Products Group

SMBC Nikko Capital Markets Ltd

London, UK

Oct-21 - Jul-14

  • Pricing and execution of interest rate swaps, inflation swaps, interest rate options and FX derivatives with a focus on project finance and structured corporate hedging, including negotiation and execution of ISDA Master, CSA and other hedging documents.

Intern, Derivative Sales & Trading

SMBC Nikko Capital Markets Ltd

London, UK

Oct-13 - Jul-13

  • Modelling of IRS, CCS and FX transactions. Review and summary of legal and compliance documentation.
  • Undertook projects evaluating ISDA agreements, swap models and credit risk simulations in order to analyse trends, benchmarks and profitability of historical transactions.

Intern, Voice Broking

ICAP plc

London, UK

Aug-12 - Jun-12

  • Rotated across commodities, fixed income, interest rate swaps and interest rate option desks.
  • Shadowed brokers and supported desks by carrying out general admin tasks and writing tickets.



Selected Data Science Writing

I regularly blog about data science and visualization on my blog joshcheema.io

Clustering: PCA vs t-SNE on the Fashion MNIST dataset

joshcheema.io

N/A

Apr-22

Spatial Data: Adjusting the Boston Housing dataset

joshcheema.io

N/A

Apr-22

Linear Discriminant Analysis vs Quadratic Discriminant Analysis

joshcheema.io

N/A

Apr-22



Certifications & Awards

Level III CFA exam candidate Studying for AWS Cloud Practitioner and Solutions Architect (Associate) Certifications

HackTheHub 2022: AI & Data Hackathon

HackTheHub

N/A

May-22

  • 3rd Place (Team Event)
  • Competition to create business idea using AI/Machine Learning to add value to industry. My team designed a predictive tool for crop selection given a set of soil conditions.

IMSE DigiFAB Datathon: Molecular Adsorption to Surfaces

Institute for Molecular Science and Engineering (IMSE)

N/A

Apr-22

  • 2nd Place (Team Event)
  • Competition to create predictive model for energy of adsorbed molecule following adsorption process given a range of pre-calculated descriptors

Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate

Google

N/A

Apr-22

Level II CFA exam

CFA Institute

N/A

Jun-19

Level I CFA exam

CFA Institute

N/A

Dec-17